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Definition of Afflict |
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Afflict
To strike or cast down; to overthrow. To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment. To make low or humble. Afflicted. Related Definitions: Afflicted, Cast, Causing, Continued, Distress, Down, Great, Humble, Hurt, Inflict, Injury, Low, Make, Mental, Or, Overthrow, Pain, Some, Strike, To, Torment, Trouble, Upon |
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Afflict Quotations
Little things console us because little things afflict us. Blaise Pascal Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. Finley Peter Dunne The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. Robert Frost In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. Martin Luther |
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Afflict Translations
afflict in Dutch is beproeven, bedroeven, verdriet doen afflict in Italian is infestare afflict in Latin is contristo, adficio, ingravo |
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